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Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district
Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024.
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/131807 Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district Lotter, Anika Terreblanche, Carine Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts. Costume jewelry Costume jewelry -- Collectors and collecting Sustainable design -- Jewelry Jewelry-making -- Environmental aspects Jewelry-making -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet jewelry -- Social aspects Jewelry in art Memetics UCTD Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2024. ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study follows my search for a holistic way to create art jewellery from the Graaff-Reinet area. I was interested in discovering a more conscious approach to creating from this particular ecosystem. I explored my natural environment through my art jewellery practice since the act of creating allows me to experience natural matter on a micro and macro physical level. As I gathered materials from my surroundings, I allowed them to guide me through the design and creation process. I worked from a regenerative design theory perspective, as it is a way of thinking dynamically rather than mechanistically, considering all interrelated parts that form the whole. This mindset essentially changes the “what, how, and why” behind design. My creative practice has become a manifestation of my nature-culture relationship, which has led me to wonder how I can use my practice to design for and into a more sustainable and harmonious future. Jewellery deals with identity and the intimate relationship materials have with our bodily experiences. As an art form, it has the potential to explore, subvert, and question. When undoing the human-centric perspective, it is often suggested we turn to indigenous wisdom, where humans were not perceived to be at the centre of the natural universe. I grappled with the thought of how I, as a white female with a colonial heritage, could design and manufacture more consciously and holistically from such an ancient environment without extracting from the knowledge that does not belong to me. Therefore, I turned to regenerative design theory and looked at how the discourse can guide me in creating from a conscious mindset where the material world informs my decisions. To make sense of my perception of place, I looked in many different directions to gain an extensive understanding of the dynamic system of interrelated parts that form the whole. I investigated my nature-culture relationship, living systems thinking, agency, the Graaff-Reinet area's history, the worldviews that have shaped my knowledge, and agriculture's role in regenerating the ecosystem. These aspects build my vMEME and design web1, which inform my design decisions and manifest in my creative practice. As I tried to design more holistically, I used a regenerative framework to guide, conceptualise, and make sense of my art jewellery practice in an attempt to find a more conscious design approach to making art jewellery. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die studie volg my soeke na ’n holistiese manier om kunsjuweliersware te maak vanaf die Graaff-Reinet-area. Ek was geïnteresseerd daarin om ’n benadering te vind waar ek meer bewustelik skep vanaf hierdie spesifieke ekosisteem. Ek het my natuurlike omgewing verken deur my kunsjuwelierswarepraktyk, omdat die skeppingsproses my toelaat om natuurlike materie op beide ’n fisiese mikro- en makro-vlak te ervaar. Terwyl ek materiale van my omgewing versamel het, het ek toegelaat dat die materiale my deur die ontwerp- en skepproses lei. Ek het vanuit ’n herlewingsontwerpteorie-perspektief gewerk, omdat dit ’n manier is om dinamies eerder as meganies te dink en al die verwante dele wat die geheel vorm, te oorweeg. Hierdie denkwyse verander die “wat, hoe en hoekom” van ontwerp. My kreatiewe praktyk het ’n manifestasie van my natuur-kultuur verhouding geword, wat my laat wonder het hoe ek my praktyk kan gebruik om vir en in ’n volhoubare en harmonieuse toekoms te ontwerp. Juweliersware het te make met identiteit en die intieme verhouding wat materiale met ons liggaamlike ervaringe het. As ’n kunsmedium het dit die potensiaal om te verken, ondermyn en bevraagteken. Wanneer ’n mens-gesentreerde perspektief ongedaan gemaak word, word daar dikwels voorgestel dat inheemse wysheid, waar mense nie gesien was as die middelpunt van die natuurlike heelal nie, oorweeg moet word. Ek het geworstel met die gedagte van hoe ek, as ’n wit vrou met ’n koloniale erfenis, meer bewustelik en holisties kan ontwerp en skep vanaf ’n antieke omgewing sonder om van kennis besit te neem wat nie aan my behoort nie. Dus het ek my na herlewingsontwerpteorie gewend en gekyk hoe die diskoers my kan lei om meer bewustelik te ontwerp terwyl die materieële wêreld my besluitnemingsproses lei. Om sin te maak van my persepsie van plek en ’n uitgebreide begrip te verkry van die dinamiese sisteem van onderling verwante dele wat die geheel opmaak, het ek in verskeie rigtings gekyk. Ek het my natuur-kultuur verhouding, lewende-sisteme-denkwyse, werksaamheid, die Graaff-Reinet se geskiedenis, die wêreld-perspektief wat my kennis gevorm het, en landbou se rol in die regenerasie van die ekosisteem ondersoek. Hierdie aspekte vorm my vMEME en ontwerpweb2, rig my ontwerpkeuses en manifesteer in my kreatiewe praktyk. Namate ek probeer het om meer bewustelik te ontwerp, het ek ’n herlewingsraamwerk gebruik om my te lei, te help konseptualiseer en sin te maak van my kunsjuwelierswarepraktyk in ’n poging om ’n meer bewustelike ontwerpbenadering tot die maak van kunsjuweliersware te vind. Masters 2025-03-28T09:23:07Z 2025-03-28T09:23:07Z 2024-12 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131807 en Stellenbosch University 110 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | Costume jewelry Costume jewelry -- Collectors and collecting Sustainable design -- Jewelry Jewelry-making -- Environmental aspects Jewelry-making -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet jewelry -- Social aspects Jewelry in art Memetics UCTD Lotter, Anika Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district |
| title | Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district |
| title_full | Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district |
| title_fullStr | Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district |
| title_short | Using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the Graaff-Reinet district |
| title_sort | using regenerative design theory as a guideline for creating art jewellery based on the graaff reinet district |
| topic | Costume jewelry Costume jewelry -- Collectors and collecting Sustainable design -- Jewelry Jewelry-making -- Environmental aspects Jewelry-making -- South Africa -- Graaff-Reinet jewelry -- Social aspects Jewelry in art Memetics UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/131807 |
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